Janus International Group, Inc. (JBI Quick QuoteJBI - Free Report) has successfully completed the backend migration of its Noke Smart Entry system to Amazon Web Services, Inc. (“AWS”).

The company remains optimistic about the completion of the transition as it believes this will provide its customers with improved cloud connectivity, performance, operations, and quality assurance benefits.

Benefits of the Migration

The migration allows Noke to ensure its digital innovation by leveraging AWS’ leading industrial Internet of Things, artificial intelligence, and security capabilities.

Following the complex migration, Noke has witnessed an increase in its availability and global reach while running on AWS. Also, its processing times have dropped to half for almost all functions and across-the-board improvement. This success is mainly driven by the redesign of the database structure, code improvements and inherent architecture improvements provided by AWS.

Overall, Noke running on AWS showcases enabled real-time over-the-air device management accompanied by improved owner-operator and end-user experience through latency reduction and improved data synchronization.

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The migration news most likely induced bullish sentiments among investors, considering shares of JBI increased 1.8% on Oct 11, during the trading session. Furthermore, the shares gained 18.2% in the past six months, outperforming the Zacks Building Products - Miscellaneous industry’s 17.6% growth.

Business Growth Strategies

Janus primarily focuses on achieving long-term growth targets by expanding its position in its end markets, increasing the Noke system adoption by its self-storage customers, driving efficiencies across the platform along with executing strategic and value-accretive mergers and acquisitions.

In the fiscal second quarter of 2023 (ended Jul 1), Janus witnessed an overall growth trend, which was attributable to favorable product mix, productivity as well as cost-savings initiatives, and commercial actions. These factors drove the customer demand across its self-storage, commercial and industrial end markets.

Also, during the quarter, the company witnessed 39% year-over-year growth in the Noke Smart Entry system installation units, bringing the number to approximately 230,000. Janus is consistently in the process of ramping up its technological capabilities and expanding its market penetration aligned with its Noke smart system.

Zacks Rank

Janus currently carries a Zacks Rank #3 (Hold).

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